xvii, 368 pages : 24 cm

"The first comprehensive critical history of the origins and development of science fiction for many decades, The Palgrave History of Science Fiction explores the genre from an international perspective and in depth. It covers SF from the ancient Greeks, through the rebirth of the genre at the Reformation, with detailed coverage of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century science fiction, and a wide-ranging account of twentieth-century sci-fi in book, film, televisual and comic book forms, concluding with an account of the current state of the genre"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

Definitions -- Science fiction and the ancient novel, interlude: AD 400-1600 -- Seventeenth-century science fiction -- Eighteenth-century science fiction -- Early nineteenth-century science fiction -- Science fiction 1850-1900 -- Jules Verne and H.G. Wells -- The early twentieth century: high modernist science fiction -- Early twentieth-century science fiction: the pulps -- Golden age science fiction 1940-1960 -- The impact of new wave science fiction 1960s-1970s -- Science fiction screen media 1960-2000: Hollywood cinema and television -- Prose science fiction 1970's-1990s -- Late twentieth-century science fiction: multimedia, visual science fiction and others -- Postscript: twenty-first-century science fiction

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